The Bridge to Sharktooth Island

Joel Ross, Sharon Duke Estroff

Description

For fans of The Magic School Bus and Magic Tree House, new friendships, mysterious forces, and an island adventure awaits in The Bridge to Sharktooth Island as you delve into the mechanics of bridge-building fun!

"This story introduces three fifth graders forced to use their individual strengths and talents to work together and problem-solve their way out of trouble. Estroff's clever prose helps readers think, plan, and create with STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and math). These are perfect for a technology-focused classroom and lessons, as well as adventure-loving students. Expressive illustrations throughout the chapters help readers to see the models as they are envisioned by the characters. Fun additions at the end of the story include shark facts, Leonardo da Vinci–inspired experiments, and instructions for readers to create their own truss bridge. This is a great STEAM-infused addition to the fiction section of any elementary or middle school library."
—School Library Journal

"[The Bridge to Sharktooth Island] could provide a useful support for teachers and parents to involve children in STEAM and an engaging context for further STEAM and technological 'design and build' problem-solving."
—Primary Science

One minute Daniel and his cousin Joy are playing in the snow—and the next they are stranded on a mysterious island surrounded by sharks!

Where are they now and how did they get here? And how will they get back home?

With new friend Kimani, the kids find clues to these and other mysteries. To escape the island, they have to work together and build a bridge to safety!

This thrilling adventure is packed with fun STEAM activities you can do at home: build your own bridge, mix up a blue slime ocean, and design ferocious paper sharks.

From the world's #1 STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math) education enrichment program, Challenge Island® presents an exciting new adventure book series for smart, curious kids.

Sujets

• Jeunesse Aventure
• Children's
• Juvenilee Fiction
• Adventure
• Action
• Découvertes

Informations

• Publié par: Turner Publishing Company
• Date de parution: 02 novembre 2021
• Nombre de lectures: 2
• EAN13: 9781513289557
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

Extrait

The Bridge to
Sharktooth Island
A Challenge Island STEAM Adventure
By Sharon Duke Estroff and Joel Ross Illustrated by M nica de Rivas
2021 by Challenge Island Global LLC
Edited by Michelle McCann
Photo credits: Page 111 : eilatan / Shutterstock.com ; siwawut / Shutterstock.com ; page 123 C2RMF: Galerie de tableaux en tr s haute definition
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission of the publisher.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Estroff, Sharon, author. | Ross, Joel N., 1968- author. | DeRivas, M nica, illustrator.
Title: The bridge to Sharktooth island : a Challenge Island STEAM adventure/ by Sharon Duke Estroff and Joel Ross ; illustrated by M nica de Rivas.
Description: [Berkeley, CA] : West Margin Press, [2021] | Summary: When Daniel, Joy, and Kimani suddenly find themselves stranded on a mysterious island, they must work together to find clues hidden around that somehow hold the key to finding their way back home. Includes STEAM related activities.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021009127 (print) | LCCN 2021009128 (ebook) | ISBN 9781513289533 (paperback) | ISBN 9781513289557 (ebook)
Subjects: CYAC: Islands--Fiction. | Cooperativeness--Fiction. | Resourcefulness--Fiction. | Problem solving--Fiction. | Cousins--Fiction.
Classification: LCC PZ7.1.E854 Br 2021 (print) | LCC PZ7.1.E854 (ebook) | DDC [Fic]--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021009127
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021009128
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Dear Reader,
W elcome to Challenge Island, a magical place where engineering meets imagination! You are about to set sail on an exhilarating voyage to one of the many action-packed Challenge Islands. Each island comes with a unique set of problems that the Challenge Island kids have to solve-together! They have to be creative, using only what s in the treasure chest and their imaginations. After the story, at the back of the book, you will have a chance to try out the challenges with your own team at home!
Boom. Boom. Boom . Did you hear that? It sounds like the Challenge Island drums calling you. That means the adventure is about to begin. Boom. Bada-boom! There it is again. Sounds like it s time for us to get going full STEAM ahead!
Happy reading! Sharon Duke Estroff Co-Author and Founder/CEO of the Challenge Island STEAM Program
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Are You Up To the Challenge?
Daniel s Threepoint Pointers
The Joy of Bridge Building
Kimani s Shark Remarks
DaVinci s Art Attack
Put It Together
Chapter 1

S ometimes magic happens in the most ordinary places.
There was nothing special about the city block or the basketball court. There was nothing special about the cars driving by on the street or the snowflakes falling from the sky.
The kids making the snowman didn t look special either-but they were.
I m freezing, the boy said, shoving his hands into his pockets.
You re always freezing, the girl said.
Only when you drag me outside in a snowstorm, the boy said.
His name was Daniel Perez. He was in fifth grade, and liked video games and sports, because he was good at video games and sports. He liked being good at things.
He was with his cousin, Joy. She was exactly ten days younger than he was, so everyone in the family called them the twins, even though they looked nothing alike. Daniel was big for his age, with dark skin and straight hair. Joy was small, with reddish hair and sparkling blue eyes.
At school, Daniel sat quietly in class and played sports during recess. Joy fidgeted in class, and did flips on the jungle gym during recess. Joy loved taking risks. Sometimes Daniel thought she even loved messing up.
It was the first weekend in January, and snow covered the basketball court. Daniel had just hefted a medium-sized snowball onto a giant snowball, and his fingers were still numb.
Now we just need to make her head, Joy told him.
She poked buttons into the snowman s middle. Well, the snow woman s middle. Today, the snowperson was a girl. Joy had even snagged a flowery hat from her sister s closet for the finishing touch.
We need a carrot, Daniel told her.
I d rather have a granola bar, Joy said.
I mean for her nose.
So do I. Joy unzipped her snow jacket halfway. She s going to have a granola nose.
You re weird, Daniel told her, not for the first time.
I m creative, Joy said. I take after Grandma Day.
Those are just stories, Daniel said. We re not really the great-great-grandchildren of a wise woman with a talking scarf.
I m descended from the wise woman, Joy said. You re descended from the scarf.
Daniel kicked snow at Joy, then watched her flap her coat to cool herself off. How can you be hot? he asked.
Because I m not just standing around.
I m not just standing around, he told her. I m also shivering.
Making a snow-head will warm you up, she said, giving him a big-eyed, pleading look.
He snorted, then took his hands from his pockets and made a snowball. But he didn t roll it into a head. Instead, he eyed the basketball hoop. He faked left, spun right, then jumped and took a shot.
Swish! Nothing but net.
Three points! he yelled.
He took another shot, then started helping Joy make a head for the snowwoman. Goofing around outside was the best thing ever. Except winter break was almost over. School started again tomorrow.
Last day of vacation, he moaned.
Yeah, Joy said, shaping the snowwoman with a scrape-pat-scrape . I guess we won t have time to make a whole snowperson parade.
Daniel stared at her. He hadn t known they were trying to build a snowperson parade.
After a second, he turned toward the street. The car noise was muffled by the snow but their tires rumbled over a grate with a clatter clank, clatter-clatter-clank . Snowflakes landed on Daniel s cheeks. Starting tomorrow, he d spend every day at the same desk, in the same room, doing the same worksheets. He d have class then recess, then class, then lunch, then class, then recess, then class.

Nothing new ever happened. Nothing exciting.
He wished for something more. He wished for something different. And inside him, a tiny spark caught fire. Because sometimes, magic happens at the most ordinary times too.
After she packed the snow-head with a pat-pat-pat , Joy continued to shape the snowwoman with a thup-thup-thup , matching the rhythm of the street noise.
Then a louder rhythm began to fill the air:
Boom-badoom-doom-boom-ba-BOOM .
Boom!
Boom-badoom-doom-boom-ba-BOOM.
Boom!
Joy gasped. What is that?
Sounds like Daniel blinked at the street. drums.
A thousand drums, Joy said.
The music was fast and fierce and happy, and seemed to echo all around them. Daniel felt the rhythm pounding along with his heartbeat. The wintry morning suddenly smelled of sunshine and surf, like a hot summer s day at the beach.
Then the air shimmered and all the fluttering snowflakes turned bright blue, the color of a cloudless sky.
D-do you see that? Daniel whispered.
Yeah. Joy grabbed his hand like when they were little, but for once he didn t mind.
Boom-badoom-doom-boom-ba-BOOM .
Boom-badoom-doom-boom-ba-BOOM .
The drums pounded louder and louder, faster and faster until the drumbeat whooshed them into the air.
Daniel felt himself flying through the blue snowflakes, which tumbled around him like a kaleidoscope. He yelped in surprise and heard Joy shouting with glee.
The snow blurred and swirled until, in an instant, it vanished.
The basketball court disappeared.
The block faded away.
The whole city was gone.
Daniel felt himself falling-down, down, down! But before he even had a chance to feel afraid, he landed as soft as a feather.
Though he wasn t in the snow anymore. He was on a small grassy hill, facing an endless sparkling ocean.
Everything else was gone-everything except Joy, who was standing beside him, her red hair blowing in the warm breeze.
Chapter 2

W hoa. Joy gaped at the sun, hanging bright and golden above them. The snowwoman doesn t stand a chance!
What? Daniel stammered in shock. What? What? What?
She ll melt! Joy explained, stomping on the grass like she was checking if it was real. It s summer here.
Where? he asked.
Here! Joy spun in a circle.
But where s here?
Some ginormous boulder, she said, smack dab in the middle of the ocean.
When Daniel looked around, he saw that Joy was right. The small grassy hill was only one side of a craggy boulder the size of a basketball court. A stone outcropping jutted from the top like a chimney. The ocean sparkled in the sunlight ten feet below Daniel.
Waves shimmered and lapped at the bottom of the boulder and the air smelled salty. In the distance, Daniel spotted a chain of islands. Some rose high into the sky, and some spread low across the water. Some had jungles, some had mountains, and some were shrouded in mist. One looked like a huge volcano.
Check this out, Joy called, climbing higher on the boulder.
I am checking it out! he said, looking at the chain of islands.
Not that, she said. Up here!
When Daniel climbed up and joined her, he saw that the boulder they were on was just a stone s throw from an island with a white sand beach. Well, maybe two stones throws. Leaves shimmered in the lush green forest that started behind the be